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sheets

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ʃiːts//
  • United States//ʃits//

Of rain or other precipitation, a great amount.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of sheetplural of sheet

noun

  1. 1

    figurativeOf rain or other precipitation, a great amount.

    When I looked out, all I could see were sheets of rain.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of sheetthird-person singular simple present indicative of sheet

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).